With their new star stuck in Cuba, the team has to scramble to come up with a proper presentation for the investors. Until furthur notice, Karen will be the understudy. Karen is thrilled. Sad Ivy is sad and singing Breakaway in the streets. Meh. She’s a fantastic Marilyn though.
And she knows it. She starts to play nice to somehow worm her way back in to the show. She even encourages Derek to be nicer after he acts like a total tyrant to Karen. Tom stands in during a scene and he’s amazing! Seriously, can we just give him a part? This was probably one of my favorite performances on the entire show to date. He’s a natural. His boyfriend doesn’t love it so much. Or how close he’s getting to a certain dancer. He breaks up with him. Good riddance.
Eileen worries when her investors get restless about the show and goes to drown her sorrows in martinis and a hot bartender. He just happens to have some money behind the counter. And he’s friends with a rock star named Randy Cobra who basically lines his mattress with millions that he’d love to throw away. Looks like we have an investor.
Karen lets slip to Dev that Derek sexually harassed her on her first day. This is not something he wants to hear as he’s walking home to discover Derek walking out of the apartment. He had just shown up to apologize to Karen for everything he’s done to her. It just doesn’t help that she’s in her underwear. They get in a huge fist fight outside and Karen breaks it up with the least amount of emotion I’ve ever seen. I don’t think her face even moved.
Who do you want to be Marilyn?
The competition between Ivy and Karen continues. This time, it’s over a goofy orange juice commercial. When Karen wins the part, it only triggers the continued downward spiral of Ivy. For someone who loves Marilyn this much, you think she would have seen it coming.
Ivy begins turning to pills and alcohol more often and even shows up high and/or drunk to the stage of Heaven on Earth. She can barely make it through the show and ends up falling flat on her face on stage. She runs outside where Karen catches up with her. She just wanted to return your sunglasses! They exchange bitter insults to one another and then Karen follows an obviously intoxicated Ivy to the liquor store..where she gives her 20 more bucks for alcohol. Then they get drunk and end up singing together in times square. While the performance was cute, what a terrible way to help someone’s problem with alcohol.
Speaking of things that are gross and annoying, can someone just fling Ellis off the Brooklyn Bridge already? I can’t stand him! What an annoying little sh*t he is. Ellis knows the team is looking for a star for their revamped musical. He wants to be the one to bring her to them so he can get all the glory and get ahead in this business. In order to do so, he has turned to having sex with powerful men in the business to get his way. Feeling confident in his success, he tells Eileen that he has a star lined up and he wants a co-producing credit. She verbally shuts him down but it’s not enough. Push him overboard.
In other messy news, Frank finds out about Julia and Michael. He’s pissed. Julia cries. I don’t feel sorry for her. Frank gets even more pissed when he punches the crap out of Michael and learns that the affair has happened before. Julia’s family falls apart and Frank packs his things and leaves.
What do you think of the new title Bombshell for the show? I prefer Marilyn I think.
Will Tom and Julia really cast someone else as the new Marilyn? Will Ivy be able to go back to just being a member of the chorus? Here is the preview promo for next week’s new episode of Smash: Hell on Earth.
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Karen is presented with another opportunity by Derek. Will she have to betray Michael and Julia to take advantage of it? I thought Ivy was fantastic in last night’s episode. Who would you choose to play Marilyn? Here is the preview promo of next week’s new episode of Smash: The Coup.
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The competition rages on! The ball may be in Karen’s favor when Ivy shocks the room and starts to lose her voice. Derek, a man of little patience, immediately begins to consider her replacement. Can Karen handle it?
Ivy is sensitive to drugs and the steroids needed to repair her throat are a last resort. They come with a slew of side effects from hallucinations to growing hair. Derek, the understanding man that he is, convinces her to take them anyway by pointing out he won’t hesitate to replace her with Karen. Karen gets noticed replacing Ivy at a Bar Mitzvah she was supposed to perform at. I gotta admit, she sounds pretty great here.Ivy sounds fantastic singing Jessie J in her bedroom though. It’s just a shame the creepy hallucinations are starting.
Julia’s son starts to act out and ice her after spying her making out with Michael. Unfortunately for him, that affair isn’t stopping anytime soon. Julia has yet another rendezvous with Michael in the studio and I’m just kind of skeeved out about the whole thing. I feel like this is supposed to be romantic and lovely but it comes off rather creepy and sleazy instead. Michael begging to undress Julia and telling her “No one has to know” is such a cliche.
Ivy loses it when Derek humiliates and criticizes her yet again in front of the group. She takes a page out of his book and tells the room he’s not that great in bed before storming out. You go girl!
